For you 9 folks who read Lost Ball you should know that Griz has come over to the dark side and started a Wordpress blog to teach how to make money online. I have pretty much given up on just about every single how to make money website out there. I don’t care for the BS. I want simple and something that works. Griz tends to teach that. I’m tired of “tactics”. Just give me a straight ahead method for getting traffic and possibly making money.

My thing these days is pretty simple. I use whatever platform available to deliver content. I use Blinkweb, Blogger, Wordpress, XSP, Tumblr, Squidoo and Hubpages for the most part to create niche sites. Some get easily indexed. Some don’t. Some make money. Some don’t. The content I use is video, photos, scraped articles, re-written PLR, original articles, RSS feeds, datafeeds and product links. I don’t link up the sites at all. I think that is death in Google. Best to age your sites and get independent links then a few months down the line link a couple to your “money site”, whichever that may be.

I get traffic via Google mostly. I get ranked by writing articles, link exchange, blog directories, site directories, keyword sniping, bookmarking and comments.

This seems and is very simple. It’s how I will make money blogging. It’s how I will make money with my other sites. I plan on reading Griz to get ideas on how to improve, get better and stay motivated. Frank and Court have some good ideas so they’ll stay in the loop. And if you’re not reading Cash Tactics, well, I think you’ll find some good ideas there as well. If this doesn’t work then I’ll find something else to do. I’m tired of trying all the newest and latest. I’ve been working the tried and true. No, I’m not getting rich. But I’m more relaxed and simply spending some time working on my sites. My sites are getting slapped around pretty good by Google. In and out of the index, but I tend to think it’s just temporary. Within the next 3-6 months I expect them to be working hard for the keywords I’m targeting.

In closing, have a read at Griz’s old site. He wants to try to mobilize bloggers to share some links. He created a reader’s section to showcase reviews that people have done for his site on their blog. He gets a link and the person who wrote the review also gets a link back. I’m on board with it. Check out what I mean at the end of each post. He’s doing this at his How to Make Money Online for Beginners blog. Want a link back from Lost Ball? I’ll do the same after each of my posts and will create “What My Readers Think” archive as well. I don’t think I’ll be calling it the same as what Griz is calling his.